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Cuomo: Congestion Pricing Isn’t Important Enough To Talk About With President-Elect Biden
Gov. Cuomo did not bring up congestion pricing with President-elect Biden in a call the other day — and explained the oversight the way a father of 20 kids might forget one or two.
November 24, 2020
Congestion Pricing Can Still Happen in 2021 — But There Are a Lot of ‘Ifs,’ Including President Biden
Advocates are hopeful that incoming President Biden will fast-track congestion pricing so that they can still start in 2021. But how would such a thing happen? Here's our latest deep dive into the issue.
November 19, 2020
MTA Prepares To Borrow $3B From Federal Reserve
The MTA Board is expected to approve a resolution that would allow the agency to borrow the maximum amount from the Municipal Liquidity Facility fund.
November 17, 2020
MTA Bus Boss: All-Electric Fleet is Still Years Away, Even With Fed Help
Hours after the Biden-Harris transition team declared its support for "zero-emission" transit fleets, we reached out to MTA Bus President Craig Cipriano to get his take.
November 12, 2020
DOT: 181st Street Busway is Not Likely For This Year
We thought only Brooklyn Dodger fans said, "Wait 'til next year!" Apparently, the mayor does, too.
November 3, 2020
NYC Transit Boss: City Has To Speed Up Bus Lane Installation
We'll never paint the town red at this rate.
October 28, 2020
President Trump’s ‘Anarchist’ Declaration Could Cost Transit Funds to New York, Others
The president threatened to cut funding to those cities — and, apparently, his agencies have gotten the memo.
October 14, 2020
ON TRACK: Joe Borelli — A Staten Island Republican — Demands Congress Save Transit
In the midst of pandemic relief negotiations in Congress, we asked Council Member Joe Borelli, a leading city Republican and a member of President Trump's re-election campaign, to explain to members of his party why transit is so important to our nation.
October 7, 2020
New MTA Rules Are Criticized As ‘Anti-Homeless’
The MTA cemented a series of emergency rules updating its code of conduct this week — rules that homeless riders and advocates said were aggressively anti-homeless.
September 24, 2020
EDITORIAL: Hey, Mr. Mayor, Ride the Freakin’ Subway or Get on the Damn Bus
Leadership means leading. If the mayor wants to restore confidence in the public transit system, he should show us all how much confidence he has in the system. By using it.
September 22, 2020
